<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Thanks for the response. If it’s a kernel module issue, which module is needed? I haven’t seen any reference to kernel modules on this subject.</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div>Do you have the required kernel modules installed? "Protocol not
available" sounds like</div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
a kernel message. Modules can be found under networking in the
kernel configuration.<br></div></span><div><br></div></blockquote><div>Okay, I suppose this makes sense</div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br>
You don't need to load module-bluez5-device directly.
module-bluetooth-discover is the only<br>
module you need to load. module-bluetooth-discover loads then
module-bluez4-discover or<br>
module-bluez5-discover depending on your bluez version and that
module automatically loads<br>
module-bluez4-device or module-bluez5-device as soon as a bluetooth
device turns up.<br></div></blockquote></span><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div><br></div></blockquote><div>As to your follow-up of whether or not things work when not logged in as root, well, I can’t tell because if I create a user and log into it, while PulseAudio launches fine, when I try to run bluetoothctl, I get its prompt but then it’s dead in the water and doesn’t respond to me typing. Before I learned of the system mode option, I tried pulseaudio —start –D when logged in as root. If I quickly run the bluetoothctl command sequence, I can connect to the speaker and then do pacmd list-sinks and see it. I just doesn’t do the same thing in system mode. I get that error. I did try copying my default.pa to system.pa but that didn’t help.</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br></div></span></body></html>